Okay, Kennedy Center. Time to clean up your act. Y...

Okay, Kennedy Center. Time to clean up your act. Yes, love the free concerts...when I can afford the parking to see one, that is. And the art is cool. But...the last time I visited, there were these kind of cheap looking wooden benches on the terrace and some other debris that wasn't a good look for our nation's capital. The K.C. Cafe got my business twice. Let's cut to the chase: it's a rip off. You get cold, overcooked, bland food that costs a fortune. I was so embarrassed that maybe all the foreign tourists there might have believed that's just what American food tastes like. Nobody earning a middle class income could afford to feed their family there and that's just wrong for a government institution. Also the place should look better maintained considering your top earning employees make six figures and close to it and they are all in charge of keeping the place up. And can we talk about ticket prices? This a government entity. Ballet tickets are like $100. How is that equitable? The director of fundraising makes $500K. The CEO makes more than a million dollars a year. They then will publicize how a fundraiser at the Four Seasons raised $150,000. That's chump change compared to the earnings of these two people. Then they have the gall to charge working class people $20 for parking and $4 for a bottle of Pure Leaf tea? That's a 400% markup on the retail price. I guess they have to charge that to pay these salaries but you know what? We pay taxes so the Kennedy Center exists. I'm not making a million dollars a year, are you? We ought to be able to afford to see a ticketed performance. There are people who work there who can't afford tickets.